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A6 News wallowa.com ARTS September 21, 2016 Wallowa County Chieftain ART STUDENT’S PAINTING FINDS A BUYER Continued from Page A1 By Steve Tool The addition of the Youth Arts Showcase also brought rave reviews and encouraging feedback from festival go- ers. Many of the adult artists agreed that some of the youth artwork easily could hold its own with the adult’s juried artwork on display in the next room, according to Costello. He added that the artist’s ob- servations were proved out when several of the youth art pieces also sold to festival-go- ers (see sidebar). The festival displayed more than $300,000 worth of art while artists sold in the neighborhood of $16,500 to festival attendees. The festival itself awarded $5,000 in priz- es to the artists. Costello said several of the art gallery own- ers on Main Street told him their walk-in trafic also was up due to the many visitors in town for the event. Local woodturner Tom Clevenger donated a one-of- a-kind vase as a rafle item — 775 rafle tickets were sold at $5 each as a fundraiser for the event. When the drawing for the vase came, about 200 people crowded into the Joseph Com- munity Center to witness the FIRES Continued from Page A1 “We need to do this to make sure we have ire pro- tection for everyone,” said Wallowa County Commis- sioner Susan Roberts during Wednesday’s meeting in En- Wallowa County Chieftain Joseph Charter School senior Addie Kilgore wasn’t sure what to think when the school’s art teach- er told her to paint some- thing other than horses. Kilgore ultimately decided to paint a gemsbok, a large African antelope, because it was the animal that most closely resembled horses in her eyes. The decision paid off. After winning prizes for her art during May’s Youth Arts Festival, Kil- gore received an invitation to enter several paintings at the youth section of the Wallowa Valley Festival of Arts last week. Kilgo- re took home the Judge’s Choice Award for the gemsbok piece as well as the People’s Choice Award for a horse painting. Adult exhibitor Rindie Mills and her husband Bri- an of Snohomish, Wash., were immediately taken in Steve Tool/Chieftain A smiling Addie Kilgore holds up her gemsbok painting beside buyers Rindie and Brian thinking, ‘Those are both (including the horse paint- ing) real good,’ Brian Mills said. They started talking to a woman who was also in the room — who just happened to be JCS Principal Sherri Kilgore, Addie’s mother. “This is the first year the festival has invited the school to have exceptional student work shown, and it’s quite an honor to have the artwork shown, and have Addie win both the awards as well as having her artwork sold,” said JCS fine arts teacher Jennifer Connolly. Kilgore, 18, herself took her first art sale in stride. “I was pretty surprised they were interested in it since it didn’t have a price on it,” she said. The Joseph senior said the sale doesn’t change the way she looks at her art. “I love doing art, but it’s more like a hobby to me than it would be a career choice.” by the painting while pe- rusing the youth section and offered to buy it. The couple said they weren’t looking to pur- chase any art during the festival. “My wife and I were sitting there looking at it, event as Clevenger’s wife De- nise pulled the winning ticket. The vase went to a woman from Clarkston, Wash. Costello attributed the suc- cess of the show to the new festival additions as well as the 100-plus festival volun- teers and several galleries around Joseph spreading the word abroad. “I feel so fortunate to work with such a committed, competent and fun group of friends and neighbors.” terprise, which was attended by about 20 landowners. “It’s a question of equability. We need to have equitable pay- ment across the board for the whole county.” The ultimate decision lies with the County Classiica- tion Committee, a ive-mem- ber panel formed according to state statute. Wallowa Unit forester Matt Howard was appointed by the state forest- er, and the OSU Extension Service appointed its Wal- lowa County co-leader, John Williams. The other three members — Chris Cunning- ham, Roy Garten and Bruce Dunn — were appointed by the county commissioners. The last comprehensive forestland classiication took place in 2010 and increased the county’s overall acreage under ODF ire protection from 448,000 to 605,000 — 270,000 acres consid- ered timberland and anoth- er 335,000 acres of grazing land. The 2010 classiication did not assess grasslands within the Conservation Re- serve Program, land in en- vironmentally sensitive ar- eas where landowners have agreed not to farm. It also left some private grazing land within the donut hole untaxed. After much discussion, the committee recommended adding the assessment to all CRP land as well as the cur- rently untaxed grazing land. The new classiication would tax approximately 152,000 additional acres, bringing the county’s total taxed acreage to about 757,000. The increase in taxed land won’t necessarily lead to a larger ire-suppression bud- get for ODF. That number is determined by a regional budget committee, which includes landowners from throughout Northeast Ore- gon. Once a budget is set, half of the money comes from the state’s general fund and the other half is paid for by landowners — the more land that is assessed, the low- er the ire-protection rate for individual landowners. That rate currently sits at $1.50 per acre each year for tim- berland and 40 cents per acre for grazing land. On average, the rate increases by about 3 percent each year due to in- lation, according to District Forester John Buckman, who attended Wednesday’s meet- ing. The ire-protection assess- ment is added to a landown- er’s annual tax bill, which is mailed in October. The pro- posal, if adopted, wouldn’t go into effect until October 2017. The Classiication Committee will hold a formal meeting Oct. 20 at the county courthouse to potentially i- nalize the decision. T HE B OOKLOFT AND S KYLIGHT G ALLERY Finding books is our specialty 541.426.3351 • 107 E . M a in • E n terprise • w w w .book loftoregon .com CLUES ACROSS 1. Employee stock ownership plan 5. Teaspoon 8. Type of IRA 11. Restore courage 13. Pet Detective Ventura 14. Discount 15. Where rockers play 16. Light Armored Reconnaissance (abbr.) 17. Computer manufacturer 18. Nomadic people 20. Liquefied natural gas 21. Steps leading to a river 22. Benign tumors 25. In an early way 30. Type of wall 31. Pop folk singer Williams 32. Greek Titaness 33. Expresses purpose 38. Type of school 41. Least true 43. Delighted 45. Church building 47. Replacement worker 49. A sign of assent 50. 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One point east of southeast 58. Sex Pistols bassist Vicious Deinitions Forestland is deined as “any woodland, brushland, timberland, grazing land or clearing that, during any time of the year, contains enough forest growth, slashing or vegetation to constitute, in the judgment of the forest- er, a ire hazard, regardless of how the land is zoned or taxed.” There are three classiica- tions of forestland: • Class 1: Timber class, including land suitable for timber production, possibly including structures (Class 1 applies only to Western Ore- gon). • Class 2: Timber and grazing class, including land suitable for joint use of tim- ber production and livestock grazing, possibly including structures. This is land that is assessed a ire-protection tax. • Class 3: Agricultural class, including land suitable for grazing and other agricul- tural use, possibly including structures. This land also is assessed the ire-protection tax. All land within city lim- its and land that is actively farmed (and therefor irrigat- ed) is exempted from the tax.
